Word: roar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though he were a lamp, a strong light. He was, at once, capable of a passionate cursing and a low-voiced impressive tranquillity of confidence. 'Damn you, sir,' he said to an officer who came galloping up, crying out some bad news above the roar of battle, 'don't yell at me!' In such moments of intensity he often leaned forward over his horse's neck and spoke with the utmost softness...
...Berlin Communists and Hitlerites scuffled in the streets. Thirty people were arrested. Five Communists and one police-man were pinked. In Brunswick, 75,000 Hitlerites assembled to receive new swastica standards from their chief. Intoxicated by blaring bands, shouting orators, and the roar of airplane motors the young Brownshirts got completely out of hand, staged an impromptu raid of the Communist workmen's quarters of the city. Street barricades were thrown up, pistols cracked, brickbats hurtled through the air. At least 15 men were gravely wounded. One Col. Hoffmann, former commandant of the fortress of Ingolstadt, was expected...
...years ago. The common man in many a land shut off his electric light and sat quietly in darkness for three minutes to honor Thomas Alva Edison, and doubtless had many a thought for which there had not been time before. When the world's lights, cinemas and roar commenced again, common men displayed their bad taste by effusions which culminated in George Michael Cohan's song which said...
...Fossicking" for opals on the Stuart Range of Central Australia,* he heard a peculiar sound. Looking up he beheld an enormous reptilian beast close ahead of him. Big Jim snatched up some rocks, slung them at the creature. It lashed its tail and charged, uttering a roar which sounded to Big Jim like the mingled bark of a dog and the growl of a lion...
...minutes Major James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle made his plane roar through the still clear air above the Mojave Desert. He paused at Albuquerque, again at Kansas City, zoomed above more nickering towns, fields and villages, landed in a splash of mud at Cleveland. There were thunderstorms between Cleveland and Newark. He crouched in his cockpit while the rain scarred the edges of the wings. When he landed his tiny secretly built Laird biplane in Newark, 11 hr. 16 min. and 10 sec. after his first take-off Major Doolittle had broken the transcontinental record made by Captain Frank Monroe Hawks...